by Adriana Noton
Lose yourself for hours in the cyber world of online art auctions. Whether you have only a little bit of money to splash out on a bit of color for your walls or you have twelve million to spend on a golden calf, you will find it here. If you don't find your heart's desire right away, you will have an enormous amount of fun looking for it.
You may need to summon up a bit of patience, however. Many sites, especially the high end houses, do not have auctions running all the time and you may have to wait. You may not be able to view items online, and you will need to visit the physical location of the auction house instead.
It is not just acrylics and oil paintings that go up for sale on the internet. Furniture, textiles, clothing, jewelry (including watches) and sculptures all have their corner of cyberspace. Items as quirky as wine and barometers are also auctioned on various web sites. A three hundred year-old violin recently commanded a price of 3.5 million American dollars.
Specimens from every corner of the globe may be found on line. African and Oceanic masks and Sub-Saharan sculptures, for example, are easy to locate. These are sourced from Indonesia, Australia, Melanesia, Africa and Polynesia. Items like these are offered twice a year, in June and December. Recently, a Kota sculpture was sold for over a million Euros.
Sales of wine occur approximately once a month. A magnum of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild was sold in London in the first half of 2011 for a price in excess of USD 150,000. This came from what is described as a 'vertical collection' of vintages 1945 to 2005. A vertical collection contains different vintages of the same wine type from different wineries. This compares to a horizontal collection, in which the wines are all from the same vintage but represent different wineries.
Illuminated manuscripts are also auctioned over the internet. The world auction record for one of these was 8.5 million US dollars. This was the price paid for a Rothschild Prayerbook from Rome, made in the year 1505. 'The Birds of America' is expected to command a price of around 7 to 10 million dollars.
Old Master and British Paintings encompass the work of Raphael, Rembrandt, Constable, Gainsborough and Turner and the like. Some of these have sold for record prices. Turner's breathtakingly realistic 'Giudecca' sold for a whopping thirty-five million dollars. Depicting a red-coated fox hunter and his companion overlooking a rocky shoreline and breaking waves is so detailed it could be a photograph.
The world record auction price for a work painted on paper was five million pounds sterling for Turner's 'The Blue Rigi'. This combination watercolor, pen and ink and bodycolor with white chalk and scratching out was last sold in London in the year 2006. <a href="http://www.consignor.ca/">Online art auction</a> provide a window into an endlessly varied world including some of the world's most famous artists as well as this year's up and coming geniuses. Opening a bidding account takes only a few minutes and you gain access to works from Australia to the Victorian, from ancient antiquities to contemporary sculpture and paintings and jewelry.
Some of the most exquisite artworks can be purchased at <a href="http://www.consignor.ca/">art auction houses Canada</a>. Consignor offers an <a href="http://www.consignor.ca/">Canadian art auctions</a> for art enthusiasts around the world.
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Title: The Beautiful World Of Online Art Auctions
Author: Adriana Noton
Email: martha@searchenginepeople.com
Keywords: art,crafts,ecommerce,business,hobbies,auctions,marketing,leisure,internet,society,culture,shopping,home,gifts
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